Lateef Akinola Salako NNOM, CON (5 July 1935 – 8 December 2017) was a Nigerian academic who was professor emeritus of pharmacology and therapeutics at the University of Ibadan.

Lateef Akinola Salako was born on 5 July 1935 in Lagos State, south-western Nigeria. He attended Methodist Boys' High School, Lagos, where he obtained the West African Senior School Certificate in 1953.^[1] He trained at the University College Hospital, Ibadan before he proceeded to University of Sheffield where he received a doctorate degree in 1969.^[2]

He began his career in 1962, at the University College Hospital, Ibadan where he rose to the position of Senior Registrar in 1965, and in 1966, he became a Medical Research Training Fellow, University of Ibadan. He was a Fellow in Clinical Pharmacology at the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Sheffield for two years, between 1967 and 1969.^[3] In 1969, he was appointed as Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan where he rose to the position of senior lecturer in 1970, and in 1973, he was appointed a Professor of Clinical Pharmacology.^[4] In 1997, he was elected President of the Nigerian Academy of Science to succeed Professor Awele Maduemezia.^[5]

Salako died on December 8, 2017, at the age of 82.^[1]

• Ogun State Distinguished Citizen Award, (1990)^{[citation needed]}
• Nigerian National Order of Merit Award (1992)
• Commander of the Order of Niger (2004)^[6]